Steinunn Önnudóttir lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland. She completed a BA in Graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2009 and a BA in Audiovisual in 2011, also at GRA.
Latest shows include feigðarós — dreamfields, a collaborative show at Kling&Bang, Reykjavík, in 2021, and Non Plus Ultra, a solo show at Reykjavík Art Museum, in 2019.
Steinunn received the Svavar Guðnason and Ásta Eiríksdóttir grant for emerging artists in 2019 and was nominated for the Icelandic Art Prize as Artist of the Year in 2022 together with Anna Hrund Másdóttir and Ragnheiður Káradóttir for their collaborative exhibition feigðarós — dreamfields.
Steinunn has run the Harbinger Project Space since 2014, in collaboration with multiple artists, and published artist books via the publishing platform in volumes in collaboration with Halla Kristín Hannesdóttir since 2017. From 2018 – 2022 Steinunn was a board member of the Sequences Art Festival.




solo / duo exhibitions

2019     Non plus ultra — D-36 — Reykjavík Art Museum — Reykjavík
2019     Someplace, somewhere — Cosmos Carl – platform parasite
2018     Terraria — with Clara Bro Uerkvitz — Ekkisens — Reykjavík
2017     Pink blush, blue veins — Gallery Port — Reykjavík
2017     Mirage — with Juliette Freney — IAA — Reykjavík
2015     Safe Place — SÍM-gallery — Reykjavík


selected group exhibitions

2024    Coincidentially, we see abstractly — National Gallery of Iceland — Reykjavík, Iceland
2023    Lounge Corp Grand Prix 2023 — Lounge Corp & Open at Reykjavík Art Museum — Reykjavík, Iceland
2022    In another house — with Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir & Hanna Dís Whitehead — Ásmundarsalur — Reykjavík, Iceland
2021     feigðarós – dreamfields — with Anna Hrund Másdóttir & Ragnheiður Káradóttir  — Kling&Bang — Reykjavík, Iceland
2020    Regenerate #2 — curation: Claire Paugam & Maria Carmela Raso — Gallery Port — Reykjavík, Iceland
2019     100 — Galleri CC — Malmö, Sweden
2018     Skúlptúr Skúlptúr — Kópavogur Art Museum — Kópavogur, Iceland
2018     Mark my words — with  Mam — Not Quite — Fengersfors, Sweden
2018     Artist-run — Ekkisens — Reykjavík, Iceland
2018     The Wheel — Reykjavík Sculptors’ Association — Reykjavík Art Festival — Reykjavík, Iceland
2018     Pamphlets — Open — Reykjavík, Iceland
2017      List Officinalis — Nesstofa — Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
2016      UpsideDome —Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum — with IAA — Reykjavík, Iceland
2016      Plan-B Art Festival — Mjólkursamlagið — Borgarnes, Iceland
2015      Kunstschlagerstofa Video Program — Reykjavík Art Museum
2012      Artefacts —  with Polly’s Picture Show — Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2010      Art show! — the India residency — Shenoy Nagar Beach — Chennai, India
2007     Cinema de Bricolage — Arti e Amicitae — with GRA — Amsterdam, the Netherlands


grants / awards / nominations / residencies

2024-25    Artist in residence – Künsterhaus Bethanien – Berlin, Germany
2024     Artist Salary – 12 months – Artists’ Salary Fund
2022     Icelandic Art Prize — Nomination — together with Anna Hrund Másdóttir & Ragnheiður Káradóttir for feigðarós
2021      Artist Salary – 6 months — Artists’ Salary Fund
2020     Artist Salary – 3 months — Covid support — Artists’ Salary Fund
2020     Artist Salary – 3 months — Artists’ Salary Fund
2019      the Svavar Guðnason & Ásta Eiríksdóttir grant for emerging artists
2019      Artist Salary – 3 months — Artists’ Salary Fund


publications

2022    The Wheel 2018 – 2022 — the Reykjavík Sculptors’ Association
2022    Art in Iceland – no.02 — the Icelandic Art Center
2021     feigðarós — artist book — self-published
2019     Blæti tímarit – nr.3 — Studio Blæti
2019     Expressjónismi — artist book — self-published